BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty. But that’s exactly how capitalism works | Brett Christophers | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

It's fascinating how, in the 1950s, US officials acknowledged - on the record - that socialism in the global South was a more effective development model than capitalism. Their response was to impose crushing sanctions on *every single* socialist country, to deny them access to

Good thread.

If the EU can find £800 billion now for defence, in a matter of days, and despite a generally weak fiscal position, then it could have found as much 10 years ago for a green transition to tackle climate change.

Just when you thought you’d heard the worst story of ‘negative value’ in the Capitalocene. “Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation”. Still, microplastics aren’t the cause of starvation, inequality is. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Against ‘growth’. Great letters in the Grauniad. “Economic growth for its own sake is ruining Britain” | Economic growth (GDP) | #Degrowth #postgrowth #ecosocialism theguardian.com/business/2025/…

This is bonkers. A huge own goal for Labour :(

In the context of everything farmers & society have been told since 2017, this is insane. Overnight The Labour Party has ejected the foundational principle that we need more nature & climate action across our landscape in favour of culture wars. 🧵 1/ theguardian.com/environment/20…

Solidarity!

The RATE of CO₂ increase is increasing!

How is it, when governments have access to such breadth and depth of research and evidence based policy guidance, they continue to push poorly conceived knee jerk legislation for the sake of symbolic statements and with no regard for the actual social impacts? #DisabilityBenefits

Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report | Biodiversity | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

Not many silver linings to the present economic upheaval, to be fair, but one of them could be (please) that sociology finally stops spewing out all that vacuous garbage about globalisation.

Orchestrated PR campaign by Meat and Dairy industry lobby group behind plant food study backlash | Food | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

@ New article: 'Digital Hives, Nonhuman Work and the Real Subsumption of Nature: Fixing Pollination in Capitalist Agriculture'. doi.org/10.1177/251484… #socioecologicalcrisis #socioecologicalfix #precisionagriculture #realsubsumption #nonhumanwork

Tony Blair is the stopped clock that somehow never tells the right time. #climatechange #decarbonisation

Most media coverage of this issue is awful. But this is rather good. . “We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?” | Animals | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…